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I would like to preface this by saying that this book is very far outside my usual genres and I mainly picked this up because of the badge, which influenced how I feel about it a lot. I think I went into this with the wrong expectations, I was thinking I would be reading a cozy cute fantasy but instead got a story that dealt with a lot of sadness and heavy emotions. There is an underlying hopeful feeling, but for someone who wasnât expecting to engage with topics like Alzheimerâs or the loss of a loved one, it wasnât enough to cheer me up. The translation also took me out of a few of the scenes because it felt quite clunky to me. On top of that I also couldnât warm up to the main character (the girl in the cafe) as she often was over explaining things, which interrupted the flow of emotions for me. I enjoyed the cat and the chapter of the twins the most and ultimately felt touched by the characters in the respective chapters. So I think the story achieves what it set out to do, it just unfortunately wasnât for me. I can definitely see this being a 5 star book for the right reader! đž
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During the prologue, the girl and the cat have a conversation where she asks for a hand, and the cat responds by rolling on its back and waving its paws in the air, and I need to talk about how this scene is even better in Japanese. Because the original phrasing in Japanese is ç«ăźæăćăăă, which means that you're so busy you'd even accept a cat's hand to help you out (even though a cat's thumbless hand would provide almost no help whatsoever).
10/10 translation, but please appreciate that the original Japanese text was a cat pun, which makes it even better đŸ
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